THE 13 BEST HUNTING QUOTES. EVER

People who love to hunt come from all walks of life. This list includes the thoughts of those people – from well-known authors to country music stars and former presidents. We’ve even included some politicians and lawyers to show we’re not totally intolerant.

Because these hunting enthusiasts are from such a wide range of backgrounds, their insights are all very unique. They’re smart and shrewd, and sometimes – hilarious. Prepare to laugh, cry and nod your head in agreement.

1. In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. The excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wildlife, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President

2. The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.- Sam Snead, Professional Golfer

3. I don’t always tell people where I hunt, but when I do, it’s a lie.- The most interesting man in the world, Dos Equis4. Why do you wear pink camo? Are you going to hunt flamingos?- Unknown

5. Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.- Thomas Harris, Author of Silence of the Lambs

6. My biggest fear is that when I die, my wife will sell my hunting gear for what I said I paid for it.
- Anonymous

7. I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.- Herbert Hoover, 31st President

8. You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.- Elayne Boosler, Comedian

9. 'Cause you can't starve us out and you can't make us run'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotgunAnd we say "grace" and we say "Ma'am"
And if you ain't into that we don't give a damn
- Hank Williams Jr., An excerpt from his song, A Country Boy Can Survive

10. I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers and hunting.- Miranda Lambert, Singer/Songwriter

11. If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli more fun to shoot.- Earl Dibbles Jr., Singer/Songwriter

12. Through almost all of human existence, huntable land and huntable wildlife have preceded the hunter. They caused the hunter. But in the future this must be reversed. It is the hunter who must cause huntable land and wildlife, and a world worth being young in.- John Madison, Great Grandfather of President James Madison

13. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.
- Donald Trump, Jr.